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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Wednesday Wanderings

I'm sitting here eating a bowl of strawberries, watermelon and grapes and thinking that it's probably the last of the fresh fruit for awhile. At least the yummy summer fruit. It's always sort of sad. I ADORE fresh summer fruit!

I joined JoNoWriMo this year for the first time and in the last three weeks I've written 20,000 words. Yes, you heard right - 20,000 FREAKING WORDS!!! A happy sigh here since it's taken me three months to get going on this novel. This novel that is due in 4-5 months to my Gorgeous Editor whom I love and adore, too. More than my lovely fruit! ;-D I need to draft and revise at least three times before I'll let Gorgeous Editor even take a peek. This book *cannot* take 5 years to figure out how to get it right.

I'm also going Halloween costume shopping this afternoon, although there's a truly *divine* medieval dress I've been drooling over out of a catalog for about three years. Do I just take the plunge and buy it? I'm thinking that with some beautiful elf ears I could go live inside the Lord of the Rings movie along with Arwen and Eowyn and all those other gorgeous girl elfs.

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[url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18889246-the-time-of-the-fireflies?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book]The Time of the Fireflies by Kimberley Griffiths Little[/url]

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The Healing Spell WON

The Whitney Award for the BEST YOUTH NOVEL OF 2010!!!

-AND IT'S A-

SCBWI Crystal Kite Finalist!

-AND-

A New Mexico Book Award Finalist!

Blurbs for THE HEALING SPELL!

"An incantational tale of Cajun magic and gators on the bayou and of the love and silence between mother and daughter." RICHARD PECK, Newbery-winning author

"Kimberley Griffiths Little's The Healing Spell is an atmospheric, affecting story of hope and devotion, as elegant and mysterious as bayou country itself."CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH, acclaimed author of Tantalize and Eternal